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Fish scarcity hits Kagera Region
2008-04-20 11:11:58
By Darius Mukiza
Centenarian Anastazia Ibeganisa has always found delicacy in fish at her Nshamba home in Muleba but for the past 15 years she has not touched, let alone seen fish of any kind.
``The Sangara (Nile perch) and Sato varieties my entire family so much liked to eat are no longer in existence. I do no know what has happened.
Whenever I ask my grandsons to bring fish they always say nothing is available in the market,`` the old lady said recently.
She said because of the scarcity of fish people will not live to her age.``Without fish the young generation will not live to reach my age. This is because fish have no harm in humans.``
There are places in Kagera Region where people have forgotten all about fish. They include Itongo and Rubya in Muleba.
Hamza Shaban, a resident of Nshamba, said that the scarcity is attributable to the fish industries in Mwanza and Kagera regions.
A brief survey in Bukoba Municipality showed low supply of fish which forced prices to escalate.
A single fish of about 1.5 kg was selling at 2,500/-which is not easily affordable by low income earners.
Fishmonger Said Mohammed admitted the high price was a direct result of low supply although the region borders the great Lake Victoria.
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